Hello,

   Ed Burnette (of Eclipse in Action fame) breaks the
news in the Eclipse Powered blog that a new Eclipse
Forms API is about to shake up Java on the Desktop as
we know it.

   The Eclipse team writes in the Eclipse Forms
Programming Guide:

   This document has been written to help you use the
new Eclipse 3.0 feature called 'Eclipse Forms'. The
content will eventually move to Eclipse help. In the
mean time, you can start experimenting using examples
shown below and code in Eclipse 3.0 integration
builds.

   Eclipse Forms is a plug-in that exposes a set of
customs widgets and other supporting classes that were
before used as internal to PDE and Update components.
They provide for creating polished, 'Web-like' UIs by
modestly extending SWT and/or manipulating style bits,
colors, fonts and other properties in order to get the
desired behavior. This technology was used throughout
PDE multi-page editors and will now be available as
public API in Eclipse 3.0.   

  Full story @
http://www.eclipsepowered.org/archives/000029.html and
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/pde-ui-home/working/EclipseForms/EclipseForms.html

     - Gerald


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